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The Methodist Church Nigeria, yesterday, restated its call on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare armed herdsmen responsible for the killings across the Middle Belt, terrorists. Reading a 17-point communiqué signed by the Prelate, His Eminence Samuel Kanu Uche and Secretary to Conference...

Security experts have warned that Nigeria is sitting on a time bomb as the African Union alerted recently that over 6,000 Africans who fought for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq could soon be returning to the continent. According to the experts, the returning fighters pose a major security...

A team of four missionaries from Great Britain have been the abducted by a group of suspected kidnappers in Delta State, Nigeria. The four missionaries, including a Doctor and his wife were taken from their dwelling around the area where they had been operating a series of clinics for no less...

The Nigerian Army on Monday said fighters of the extremist Boko Haram sect had acquired new sets of uniforms. A statement by the spokesperson for the Army, Sani Usman, said, “Troops of 22 Brigade Garrison and elements of 3 Battalion that went out on long range fighting patrol yesterday, Monday...

The second in command of Islamic State has been killed during a raid in Syria. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joe Dunford held a press conference at the Pentagon this morning confirming they had killed one of Islamic State's top commanders Abdul Rahman Mustafa...

Boko Haram militants invaded Babangida town, Tarmowa local government area in Yobe state, killing one person early hour of Sunday morning, Dailytrust reports. The terrorists stormed the town at about 1.45am in Hilux vans and motorcycles which is believed by residents to be a reprisal attack...

Ahmed Salkida, journalist cum confidant of the leadership of Boko Haram, says he's confident that the abducted Chibok girls are still alive with some of them refusing to convert to Islam. No fewer than 200 of the original 300 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in April 2014 are believed...

The Presidency has dismissed the insinuations that the Federal Government had banned the use of Hijab, the Muslim women’s dressing symbol of modesty. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Malam Garba Shehu...

The military on Monday said that Boko Haram terrorists have devised other means of inflicting harm on innocent citizens to further their terrorist cause. Rabe Abubakar, a Brigadier General and acting Director Defence Information, in a statement said some of such tactics Boko Haram now used...

A grenade blast hit a mosque in a busy district of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, wounding more than a dozen people, government spokesman Getachew Reda said. Authorities are unsure who is behind the attack at the Grand Anwar Mosque but are investigating, Information Minister Getachew Reda...

Nigeria has been ranked third of the 162 countries of the world that have been worst hit by terrorist attacks, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index. The country, Africa’s largest oil producer, was ranked fourth in 2014. According to Nigerian Bulletin's analysis of the list, Iran is...

One of the lead campaigner of the BringBackOurGirls campaign and former Minister of Education, Mr. Oby Ezekwesili and the former Spokesperson of the Goodluck Jonathan campign organiation, Mr. Femi Fani- Kayode has condemned the attack at a popular hotel in Mali where many people were held...

According to Independent UK newspaper, Boko Haram has overtaken Isis as the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation, according to a new report. The Nigerian-based terror group, also known as Islamic State’s West’s Africa province (ISWAP), was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014. In...

Major-General Yushau Abubakar, Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole, says the military will capture Sambisa forest, den of the Boko Haram terrorists, before the December presidential deadline, vanguard reports. Abubakar said this in an interview with newsmen shortly after a routine visit to...